*trigger warning* Baby Maiah is here! 8lb 4oz 21.5 inches of pure perfection! Born 7/2

My beautiful baby girl made her debut into this world at 7:15 pm on 7/2 🙌🏼🙏🏻 I had early labor starting on 7/1 at 4am with some constant contractions that were 8-4 min apart all day and night long until 2:30 am on 7/2 when I turned over in bed and felt a pop and a small little gush come out. I wasn’t 100%sure it was my water, so I laid there a little bit and then the contractions started coming on super crazy! Super hard every 4-3 min. A couple went by and I just new I needed to go to the hospital! I woke up my husband and off we went. When I got there they checked to see if my water had broken, it had yay! And I was already at 4 cm so they kept me. I wanted to wait as long as I could before asking for an epidural and I made it all the way to 7 cm before I couldn’t take it anymore I was begging for it at that point. I got the epidural which was like nothing but a small burn. He stuck me twice because the first one didn’t work, and I quickly progressed to 9.5 cm within 2 hours, but it took me a couple hours to finally be able to start pushing. I was feeling so defeated because I would lie super hard twice and the last two pushed I couldn’t hadn’t hard because I was exhausted. And she would inch out and slide back in. Y’all I had to push for 5 hours. Oh my god, no position would work except when I finally got flipped over and had my hands on the back of the bed and was on my knees pushing like I had to take the biggest shit of my life, and I was that way for about an hour and finally we could see hair! So I flipped back over and was able to watch with the mirror. Y’all the ring of fire is real. They told me don’t push as she was crowning and wait for a contraction but y’all I couldn’t wait, I pushed as hard as I could and ended up with a second degree tear and some stitches. Whoops 😬😅. They laid her on my chest and I was crying soooo hard. She cried out and I was crying husband was crying and all I kept saying over and over again was “my baby” “my baby”. Her color was a little gray so they took her and checked her out and her o2 was a little low so they were having to rush her off to NICU, my husband looked at me and I said go with her I’ll be ok! I ended up losing a lot of blood that gushed out and she pulled out my placenta and was elbow deep pulling out chunks and chunks of blood cloths, and i was classified as a hemorrhage so I felt like I was dying pretty much. The pain of her doing that was indescribable. 110/10 even with an epidural I was begging for more pain meds. I kept saying over and over again I want my baby I want my baby. Finally I was stitched up and they pressed soooo hard on my stomach it was terrible. I was grabbing the nurses hands and arms so hard I felt so bad 😬😅. So finally around 10 I was ready to go see her and do skin to skin, and I went to pee which is a whole ungodly painful experience after stitches and birthing out an 8.4 pound baby. I sat on the toilet and a huge and I mean bigger than the size of my hand clot came out and the amount of bleeding was insane. I looked in the mirror and was ghost white and felt like I was going to pass out. I told my husband babe I don’t feel good and he called the nurse in and she said I need to lay down and not move. I went from a 12 to a 7 in a blood count and the need for a blood transfusion is like a 6 or a 6.5 so I was close to needing blood. Crazy. Finally at 3am I was able to do skin to skin and see my baby and do breast feeding stuff. Oh my god I cried so hard seeing her. Her vitals are perfect she is just fighting off an infection from being in the birth canal for like 4-5 hours and will get to go home in 5 days after the rounds of antibiotics are over. I am staying with her day and night till she gets out. I am so happy I have my baby, and I am so thankful she is healthy. Y’all this has been an amazing journey. And I would do it 100 times over to get my precious angel.

I’m sore and my vagina is mad at me lol. But I am healthy and she is healthy and that’s all a mom can ask for!